Word: stagnant
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...knowledge rests more heavily than in any other area, of the educational system. In the realm of higher education the American right to question, to explore, to express, to examine and re-examine, is of necessity exercised continually. Were it not so, our diverse intellectual resources would become stagnant...
Author Isherwood's prose still has the crisp grace of a good tennis match. He is an exterior decorator of chic and competence, whether the setting is Athens, the Alps, or the South of France. But by now he has splashed all the water out of his stagnant, neurotic pool and seems more and more like his hero-a high-and-dry orphan of the Saxophone...
Johnston set out to block Kimbel's confirmation in the Senate. He named nine persons who "desired" to testify against the nomination. Most of the anxious witnesses were members of South Carolina's stagnant old Republican organization which Kimbel has been trying to clean up. But despite three telegrams apiece from the Foreign Relations Committee, all nine failed to appear...
...Author Sigrid de Lima had not fashioned it with a sensitive mind and a good writing hand. Mrs. Albany's troubled character and Author de Lima's basic theorem become clearer with the turning pages. In effect, it is that love is a current, and that stagnant love turns to hate. As a new bride, Mrs. Albany had been shocked to discover that her husband had married her only to give his first wife's children a mother; the springs of her love clogged. Her home became a barracks, her children malingering recruits, herself a drill sergeant...
...rate, much of the present masthead is filled with seniors or equally stagnant personalities, and there are unlimited openings on all four boards--News, Editorial, Business, and Photographic. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors from both the College and the Annex are eligible...